Abstract
Regina Horta Duarte.2016. Translated by Diane Grosklaus Whitty. Activist Biology: The National Museum, Politics, and Nation Building in Brazil. Tucson: University of Arizona Press
Highlights
In Activist Biology: The National Museum, Politics, and Nation Building in Brazil, Regina Horta Duarte, with the help of the translator Diane Grosklaus Whitty, tells the story of the Brazilian National Museum in relation to a context of scientific, social, and political transformations between 1926 and 1945
Gama – Activist Biology Book Review sense, the author argues that demands raised by the National Museum staff affirmed biology as a specialized field of knowledge and played a decisive role in Brazilian society
In order to present the importance of the National Museum in the Nation-Building debate, Duarte examines the demands that the scientists Roquette-Pinto, Sampaio, and Leitão made to the Provisional Government of Vargas between the 1920s and the 1930s
Summary
Activist Biology: The National Museum, Politics, and Nation Building in Brazil. In Activist Biology: The National Museum, Politics, and Nation Building in Brazil, Regina Horta Duarte, with the help of the translator Diane Grosklaus Whitty, tells the story of the Brazilian National Museum in relation to a context of scientific, social, and political transformations between 1926 and 1945.
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